Patents by Inventor Massimo Ciacci

Massimo Ciacci has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Segmentation unit for and method of determining a second segment and image processing apparatus
    Publication number: 20030035583
    Abstract: A method of determining segments in a series of images based on previous segmentation results and on motion estimation. A second segment (108) of a second image (106) is determined based on a first segment (102) of a first image (100), with the first segment (102) and the second segment (108) corresponding to one object (104). The method comprises a calculation step to compare values of pixels of the first image (100) and the second image (106) in order to calculate a motion model which defines the transformation of the first segment (102) into the second segment (108). An example of such a motion model allows only translation. Translation can be described with one motion vector (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Anna Pelagotti, Gerard Anton Lunter, Massimo Ciacci